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Last year, the Austrian Trade Union Federation (ÖGB) launched a campaign calling for a massive tax reform in Austria. Last week the Austrian government finally agreed on a tax reform very much in the line of the campaign of the Austrian Trade Unions, “Lohnsteuer runter”.

The Austrian government reacted to the public campaign and proposals made by the trade unions. The ÖGB mobilised large parts of the labour movement for the campaign over the last months and collected more than 880.000 signatures demanding the reduction of income tax rates. After long negotiations within the Austrian government, supported by the experts of the trade unions, the outcome is a huge success for the labour movement as a whole. Прочети още →

According to the International Transport Workers Federation, “Over the weekend truck drivers in Kenya working for Agility global integrated logistics were beaten, abducted at gunpoint and forced to drive their trucks to a company workshop. Прочети още →

October 10th was a real hit day of the ITF Action Week for FTTUB. Four different events in the field of road and water transport were held in Sofia, Varna and Bourgas. At 10 a.m., in the Ministry of Transport and Communications a meeting was held with the Executive Agency “Automotive Administration” officials to discuss issues…Continue reading »

As part of its Road transport activities for the ITF Action Week, on October 10th FTTUB met with the management of the Road Administration Executive Agency (RAEA) at the Ministry of Transport. The purpose of the meeting was to present the findings of the in-depth research into the work and life conditions of Bulgarian truck…Continue reading »

On 7th October, the World Day for Decent Work, and as part of the ITF Action Week activities in support of road transport, by an initiative of FTTUB at the offices of Sofia Municipality a Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between FTTUB, as a member of ITF, and Sofia Municipality and the two municipal transport companies ‘Urban Mobility Centre’ and ‘Electrotransport’, as members of the International Association for Public Transport (UITP). Прочети още →

If a transport company hires a subcontractor under the “mailbox principle” for instance in Bulgaria, the same company might save up to 90-95% from salaries or social benefits. To this conclusion came the European Transport Federation’s survey conducted together with the FTTUB. The survey was presented yesterday, 13th of August on the 43rd ITF congress in Sofia.

The main conclusion of the survey is that the subcontracting companies have the habit of not organizing their main activities in the country where they conduct their businesses, thus avoiding the requirements of the labour law in the country. Прочети още →

On 18.12.2013 the President of FTTUB Ekaterina Yordanova and Daniela Zlatkova, Executive Secretary, met with the Executive Director of the Road Administration – Dimitar Ganev, regarding a signal from FTTUB for the rowdy Dutch situation with Bulgarian truck drivers.
Bulgarian drivers employed at minimum wages from Bulgarian company, but working in the Netherlands under very bad and precarious working conditions, contacted FTTUB for assistance at the end of November. After more than a week stay in Roosendaal, the Netherland, with no job and no payment the drivers contacted the Dutch employer who told them that there’s no resources for fuel and no orders for execution. Прочети още →

On 30 March, the ETF revealed at a press conference the measures the European Commission is currently evaluating with the view to include them in the upcoming Road Initiative, a legislative package supposed to be launched in only 2 months. The message of the ETF is clear: drivers cannot work or drive longer hours and rest for less without becoming a real and unwilling threat for their own safety, for the safety of their passengers, for the safety of other road users. ETF called the bundle of measures ‘a way to legalise social dumping’ and pointed out to the fact that the sector will become even less attractive for young people. Прочети още →